Great Falls Tribune from Great Falls, Montana • Page 26

Sunday Morning, March 10, 1940 Page Ten THE GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE Dullness Often Gomes Into Married Life Sometimes a dreadful dullness comes into married life, for the woman. She remembers other days, eager, joyous days of girlhood. Now comes a pause. Women Grow Tired of Same Daily Routine By KATHLEEN NORRIS Sometimes a dreadful dullness comes into married life, for the woman. Not illness, not trouble, not money worry, but just insufferable dullness.

Life for Betty goes on without excitement, without thrill. The kitchen routine proceeds placidly; the children go to school; Ed comes home and has his dinner and goes out to his lodge meeting. Betty helps the boy and girl with homework, turns on the radio, yawns, mends a sweater and goes to bed. Sometimes this even flow of uneventful days frightens an intelligent woman. Earthquake, flood or fire might horrify her, but at least they would find her active, adequate, fcwept off her feet in the sudden new demand.

But monotony scares her. She remembers other days, eager joyous days of girlhood, dances, laughter, the glory of her engagement and marriage, the fun of showing off the new house, of telling her friends that she and Ed were expecting a baby. The baby's coming, too, was an occasion never to be forgotten; the flurry of getting him started; the happy, wearying absorption in hi3 needs, and the needs of the second baby. All this might have been tiring, anxious, responsible, but it was satisfying and triumphant, too. Ten Years Later But now, 10 years married, with the thirties beginning to slide by, with Ed taking everything quietly for granted, and only articulate when dinner isn't satisfactory or little Ned sleeps too late in the mornings now comes a pause.

And somehow the wife and mother knows that it is a dangerous pause, and that something must be done about it or it may have lasting and serious results. "Floyd leaves the house at 8:30," writes a Kansas wife. "I go to the door with him and kiss him goodby. Then I get the two boys off for school, and turn back into my quiet house for morning work. Beds, xlishes, telephone, dust, planning of meals.

At noon I have a cup of soup or malted milk and a sandwich, and afterward lie down and rest for awhile. Then perhaps shopping, a movie, a club meeting, a hospital call. "At 5, I am occupied in the kitchen, with the table to set. Floyd is home, and there is quiet talk of what he did all day and what I did, not either interesting or important to either hearer, and then we settle down to evening paper and radio, or, on rare occasions, have guests for dinner and bridge very poor bridge all around, with nobody sure of the scoring or Floyd goes out and I am alone. Goes On No Change "Everything pleasant, friendly, Just as it was last year and will be next year.

Our income is small, but enough, we all have good health, questions of budget and allowance were long ago adjusted. My husband is a trusted employe in a rubber firm; his salary is $38.50 a week. Recently he asked for a weekly raise of $7.50 and was refused. It would have made some difference to "us, but not an important one. "What can I do to make oui lives more exciting and glamorous? I am a home woman; I know I should be more than satisfied with what I have.

But I'm not. I'm restless and Floyd's people are straight American. My grandfather was a general in the Spanish army 30 years ago; my mother, Swedish. Is it the mixed blood that makes me at once shy and eager? I did not speak English until I was 8 years old." The obvious answer to Lola is that she has more now than 910 of the women of the world have, and that 99100 of them would feel themselves rich with a steady husband, a steady income, two small sons, home, garden, car, perfect health, and that security from aerial bom- able one. Or go into politics, by the simple process of attending a meeting or two, accepting a position on some committee, and contributing your mite toward a better and wiser administration of your local affairs.

A Plan Is Necessary Some months ago I was walking through a dark Boston slum with a young professional man. It was broiling summer, and the high tenement rooms were like so many little hot boxes glaring into the crowded night. To my exclamation of pity and concern, the young doctor said "It all depends upon whether they have a plan or not. People without plans are to be pitied, no matter where they are. But wherever men and women are looking forward, saving and working and hoping for something they don't care where they are at this particular moment." I believe that is true.

Most women would be happier for a plan. If you are working to extend your usefulness and your horizons, thinking ahead to better times and taking every possible step, no matter how small, to reach them, you have no time left for restlessness and discontent. (Released by the Bell Syndicate, Iuc.) Sidney School Honor Students Are Named SIDNEY, March 9. (Special) Jerry Niehenke and Harriet Swan-by led the seniors at Sidney high school in honor roll standing for the fourth six weeks. Other seniors listed were David Finnicum, Dorothy Johnson, Hazel Kruger, Ruth Turner, Ida Mae Wind, Rosalie De-Shaw, Bill Johnson and Julia Mc-Cullough.

Highest junior record was made by James Strack, with 13 points, and he was followed by Leila Fay, Anna Jaskot, Lois Hart, Ronald Runyan and Lora Simard. Gerald Redlin led the sophomore class, with 13 grade points. Other sophomores with high standing were Caroline Espeland, Betty Daniels, Alfred Senft, Robert Olesen and Leonard Dahi. The freshmen were led by Fred Schmitz, with 12 points. Others were Russell Hulings, Elizabeth Hart, Arlyn Bentson, Alice Krokom, Inez Peterson, Ella Haw-ley and Albert Dige.

Eighth graders, headed by Hurly Carey and Don Marchwick. 10 points, are Gordon Turner, Delores Krein, Marvin Swenson, Clayton Stunkard, Keith Boyd and Louie Dawley. Seventh graders are Barbara Rounce, 12, Alton Thorgerson, Dennis Murphy, Hugh Anderson, Audrey Oleson and Hubert Johnson. bardment that is becoming a luxury in the world. But that isn't fair.

For she admits herself that she ought to be content, and really wants to cure herself if it is her fault that she is not. So instead of reproaching her, I am going to make to her several suggestions that may help her extricate herself from the rut into which she has fallen. To begin with, there is an inner spirit or subliminal consciousness or soul or entity in every woman. It is a correspondence with elements that are supernatural. Call this thing whatever you like Karma, Yogi, mental healing, the infinite, Oneness it means that you recognize some influence higher than a merely earthly influence, and your values in life are formed on something higher than a purely earthly scale.

Most of us call this imponderable, infinite, intangible but very real presence, God. We don't attempt to analyze Him, work Him out on charts and graphs; we merely go into that stillness called prayer now and then, and await with perfect confidence a renewal of life within us, a new sense of potentiality, trust, and above all delight and eagerness in the outwardly dull routine of every day. The Happiest People The happiest persons in this bewildered world, in fact the only happy ones, are those who have found this secret for themselves, and revel in that unbounded glory of living which the orientals call "bliss." You can live in three rooms in a crowded tenement, and possess it. You can be the wealthiest woman in the world and miss it completely. Yet it's open enough to find, and it costs nothing.

Ask, and you shall receive it. Once this is achieved, a thousand interests and indeed fevers possess you. You want to live forever, so that you may have time to read a thousand books; accomplish a thousand prison reforms and live to see them work; establish a Spanish class at 25 cents a lesson and watch it grow until you are besieged with class and radio engagements; plan a garden, and glory in its beauty; build a back yard grill and entertain the boys and their friends there; find an old country place and move into it, and have chickens and a cow; raise finebred Persian kittens; gather a circle of their friends about your boys and be sure that the group in which they grow to manhood is a safe group; study bee-keeping, astronomy, bookbinding; put up fancy preserves and sell them. Or, under state supervision, take three or four small children to board. The state pays much more than they cost and the work of building little citizens is a valu Smart Woman Heads Unique Business Firm ST.

LOUIS, March 9. For a nominal fee the "Jane West services" will wake you in the morning, do your shopping, meet trains, make party arrangements and even furnish a golfing partner or a fourth at bridge. Energetic Miss West, a former secretary, has turned this idea into a profitable business. She maintains a downtown office; has a staff of seven part-time employesincluding her former boss, Charles Block, retired wholesaler who got tired of loafing. Being an habitual early riser, he is in charge of the "wake up" branch of the service and will arouse you from your slumber at any designated hour.

The subscribers are mostly working men and women who have the bad habit of throttling the alarm clock. The 4 a. m. calls for golfers in the summer also are lucrative. Other clients use the agency as a string around the finger, by listing important dates they do not wish to forget.

The staff includes a veteran golfer, who will play as a companion or give lessons; a former educator who handles the children's parties and problems and several bridge and fashion experts. Miss West personally arranges complete details for social functions, even to the point of helping select the proper clothes. She used to do all these things gratis for Mr. Block's out of town customers. But she realized many people would pay for such services and when Block quit business she set out to prove her theory.

Visiting at Hinsdale HINSDALE, March 9. (Special) "Montana Pete" Nelson, featured radio artist over station KGCX at Wolf Point, has discontinued his daily program over that station because of poor health. He is spending several days at Hinsdale visiting his brother, Albert O. Nelson, and family, but plans to leave soon for the higher altitudes of western Montana, where he believes a chronic asthma affliction may improve sufficiently to permit him to sing agaif, over stations in that area. 1 The original endowment of the Rockefeller foundation, at its establishment in 1913, was $182,814,480..